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Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience, and No Regrets

Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience, and No Regrets

Full Title: Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience, and No Regrets
Author(s): By Rob Atkinson, Netra Chhetri, Joshua Freed, Isabel Galiana,  Christopher Green, Steven Hayward, Jesse Jenkins,  Elizabeth Malone, Ted Nordhaus, Roger Pielke Jr., Gwyn Prins,  Steve Rayner, Daniel Sarewitz, Michael Shellenberger
Publisher(s): Hartwell
Publication Date: July 1, 2011
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Description (excerpt):

Climate Pragmatism, a new policy report released July 26th by the Hartwell group, details an innovative strategy to restart global climate efforts after the collapse of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. This pragmatic strategy centers on efforts to accelerate energy innovation, build resilience to extreme weather, and pursue no regrets pollution reduction measures — three efforts that each have their own diverse justifications independent of their benefits for climate mitigation and adaptation. As such, Climate Pragmatism offers a framework for renewed American leadership on climate change that’s effectiveness, paradoxically, does not depend on any agreement about climate science or the risks posed by uncontrolled greenhouse gases.

The new report brings the Hartwell framework into an American perspective, and it is authored by a broad group of 14 international scholars and analysts representing a diverse range of political and ideological positions — from the conservative American Enterprise Institute to moderate Democratic think tank Third Way and the liberal Breakthrough Institute.

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